Britten's 'Peter Grimes'

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Recorded on 23 November, Graeme Jenkins conducts the Vienna State Opera's Britten Centenary production of the composer's masterpiece about "the struggle of the individual against the masses". Herbert Lippert is in the title role with a cast that includes Gun-Brit Barkmin as Ellen Orford and Iain Paterson as Captain Balstrode.

"In writing Peter Grimes, I wanted to express my awareness of the perpetual struggle of men and women whose livelihood depends on the sea - difficult though it is to treat such a universal subject in theatrical form." - Benjamin Britten